Gardening Questions w/ Rosy Hardy | Episode 9

More questions for Rosy to answer as we head to Xmas
Happy Gardening 🙂

I’m Rosie Hardy this is Rosie Hardy gardening and we’ve got back to question and answers so let’s get going because there are quite a few hello Rosie I live in a city n genon haven’t pronounced that right I’m sure in the Netherlands my garden I grow stack as bizantina for

The foliage but I’m finding that it gets worse after it’s flowered and then it doesn’t look very good uh once you get into the Autumn wondering whether she should replace the uh stacker spies and time with perhaps big ears which is another variety which has got much larger um

Foliage Etc um and just see uh wondering what they’re doing wrong so really what you need to remember to do is once your stackus has flowered you need to cut it right back down to ground level so you’re not just deadheading you’re taking all the old foliage off as well

You can then give it a liquid feed and it should then produce and give you lovely good looking gray foliage if you don’t do that and you leave older foliage it does tend to get a little bit mildewy and that is what you’re seeing you’re seeing these brown leaves that

Are just dying off and not looking very good now stackus big ears is lovely it’s a really great Plum but you’re still going to get some of the same problems with that so it’s how you manage the plants especially if you get a very dry summer then you want to be making sure

You’re cutting it right back down you can do it with a scrimer if you really want to but cut it down to ground level and then water it and give it a liquid feed and that will encourage it to regrow and you’ll get much much better

Foliage which will last for a lot longer through the winter months now once you start to get a lot of heavy frost a lot of rain and even snow later on in the winter months the foliage will start to deteriorate again and you’ll need to

Clean it up in the spring and get all the fresh coming through I hope that helps you I’m losing a number of my outdoor potted plants to vine Weevil and wanting to sort out a regime for treating them okay so this is quite an important thing to remember Vine weavil

Love plants that are in containers because a lot of people forget to uh repot regularly their plants and if you re pot regularly you can find the grubs you can feed those to the birds I tell you what our Robins love them you know

We just keep them all put them down on a side Robin comes eats the whole lot we’ve got really fat little Robbins on the few plants that still get Vine Weevil so Vine Weevil will attack saxifrage AA group so you’re looking at sedums uh hyot aliums uh saxifrages

Themselves hukas um cichon all those things which have got really quite nice oh Hardy geraniums as well they actually like those anything that’s got a really big thick root which they can burrow into and not totally kill the plant but just sort of weaken it a bit that is

What they like so please check your plants please if you can report twice a year that will help but also twice a year get hold of Nemesis Nemesis is the trade name for the uh actual nematodes that you buy for Vine Weevil and you can apply those in the spring and you can

Apply them in the Autumn now it needs to be when the soil temperature so the pot soil temperatures this is the key thing not the air temperature but the pot soil temperature needs to be above + 5° C or 40° Fahrenheit so that is when you can

Start using it and if you have bad infestations then I would suggest using it one month followed by another month you’re better off starting to use it probably mid April because that’s when the grubs are active um if you if your solil temperature is better before that

Then do it before that but usually so start of April and then i’ give another one miday and then wait until September and do probably end of September October for your late season one as well and that should help and if you do that as a regular raise

Along with the repotting you should get on top of the vine Weevil hello Rosie how can I save my amarillis bulb for next year she has no blooms leaves haven’t grown um they’re green but it’s short okay so I’m probably not the best person to tell you

How to look after amoris I know the basics of what you should do but I have to say I fail myself every year so don’t feel bad if you cannot get get your bulbs to regrow the advice is that once they have bloomed and the flowers have

Got spent flowers you cut those flowers down you leave the leaf there until the leaf goes limp and yellow and then you cut the leaf down to the bulb the bulbs should then be put somewhere probably outside watered from the top a little bit but maybe left to dry off and just

Go dormant that’s the best thing so you can put them outside and forget them bring them back in start watering from the top with a little bit of feed and they will should then put on leaf and come up they need a good amount of light through the winter months that’s the key

Thing for them um and then they should come back the answer to that is should and it never works for me but I know people who it works for regularly so try it if not just buy a new one each year which is ready to go and we flower and

Bloom for you why does my Roose or Dag’s horn not turn a beautiful red in the Autumn it’s in a south facing it’s 6′ High never turned red just gone straight Brown healthy looks fine in every other way right Roost finer probably you have

Got a clone that is not doing it but the other thing that I have suddenly thought about when I was looking at this was the fact you said it looked healthy in every other way I’m wondering if you’re feeding it too much they like really poor horrible free draining grotty soil

And then they do incredibly well so although you’ve got it south facing are you mulching it are you giving it a feed in which case stop doing that because that’s the key thing it needs to be starved the more starved it is the better color you will get from it I know

That sounds really horrible but they survive very very well on those conditions so just try that don’t feed it don’t mulch it and hopefully you will get color otherwise I’m afraid it may just be a clone that doesn’t color up hello Rosie would you mind talking about how you take cuting from Japanese

Maple ACA palmatum please I’d love to hear about the process and recommendations again tree cuting hardwood cuttings are not necessarily my speciality but you you will find that the majority of named asop palmatum are actually grafted you sew seeds of the plants you get young plants growing they

Are then your root stock you then take beautiful young pieces of the top softwood and you would graft those onto your new root stock that is how they are produced commercially you can however do cuttings and the cuting tend to be some something which is a softwood cutting

With a heel so you go to a nice piece of material that is somewhere around about 10 to 15 cm long somewhere between 4 and 6 in looking really good still got nice soft growth in it and you go down to the main stem and you take it with a little

Bit of tiny heel on it and that you would then put into cutting compost it will sit in the cutting compost right the way through the winter but does require basal heat you cannot just put it outside in a Cold Frame it needs to go onto a propagator with basil heat and

That will help it to callus over through the winter months and then in the spring it will start to root and put on new shoots so hopefully that helps hello Rosie what activities would you recommend for gardeners to focus on during the cold short days of Winter

Thank you well this is one of those things isn’t it a lot of people think the Gard has gone to sleep well here in the UK there are lots of jobs that you can still do out in the garden if you happen to be in the USA Canada then the

Winter months you’re probably covered in snow so you can’t do an awful lot so it depends on where you are in the world as to what you are expecting to be able to do here in the UK you will still be pruning a lot of your trees and shrubs

Especially your fruit trees because your fruit trees your apples and your pears you’ll be St starting to do the pruning of those through December January February once you get into the end of February beginning of March you would start on your prunus so such as your

Plums and your cherries so there’s a lot of that sort of work to carry on doing a lot of editing can be done so you can look at your photographs of your garden through the year and you can go right that bed what am I going to be doing

With that do I need to take that plant out do I need to be splitting it and gives you some spring work so you can start start doing that sort of thing then of course there are the veg seeds ordering seeds is fun but do be careful

Don’t have too much and when you do start to sew do little and often you’ll find you have much more success rather than doing the whole lot in one batch little and often with all your seeds whether it’s your veg seeds or your flower seeds little and often because if

You fail with one batch the next one might come through better so just remember small little and often with those cleaning tools that is one of the big things that you can do through the winter cold months you can repair tools that’s the other thing as well really

Really good so that gives you a few bits and pieces of what I would think you should be able to get on with and some of those jobs luckily are inside and warm I have a few pots of discounted rosan that I bought from a local Garden Center realize they’ve got a back

Material Leaf have got Reds Browns spotch all over them prune the leaves off grown back still got the defect is it a m your chck symptoms should I bin them will they spread stuff and you know you can all read this sorry I’m not reading it out terribly well at the

Moment I would say if they’ve got that type of marking on them and they’re regrowing with it they have got something which is known as bacterial leaf spot bacterial leaf spot will have got into the crown of the plant and it will just keep on coming back so once

Plants are diseased I’m sorry you need to bin them they would be better off burnt uh if you are able to burn if not don’t put them on the compost heat because you will just spread that around the garden so because this is a disease that is spread from plant to plant by

Water splash so if you have clean material in the garden you do not want to put infected material material next to them so it is best to bin them you bag them and Bin them that is the best thing that I can say so put them into a

Bag seal it up put it into the normal rubbish do not put it into a green waste because again you’re just going to be sending that bacterial bacteria off to someone else’s Garden or even if you get the green waste back you might get it back yourself so do do be very very

Careful with that also the one thing I would say is if you have used your snips or secar or whatever it is you’ve used to cut off the Dead Leaves don’t go and then use those on clean plants make sure that you’ve cleaned them in between so

Disinfect those uh seers or Snips before you use them on anywhere else this is all about cleanliness but I would this is the problem Sometimes some plants in the discounted line brilliant absolutely no problem at all but if they’ve got one of these bacterial spots you do not want

To be bringing that into your garden okay I’m considering leaving my daily tubers in the ground worried about Frost damage they are planted next to a south facing wall understand that this can help them will fleecing help thank you very much the da Society in the UK has

Switched from digging up the daers to saying please leave them in the ground now this was before we started to get some very erratic um wet then cold wet then cold and last season a lot of people lost the dailies that were in the ground other people kept them so it

Really is dependent on your soil if your soil is heavier and going to get very very wet then I would lift them if your soil is free draining then you’re going to have much more success also the depth at which your daili is are planted the deeper the better because then they can

Survive through now a southf facing wall acts like a radiator and will keep the temperature high but it’s not all about temp temperature it’s about the moisture level in the ground and the amount of wet cold water that gets down to those tubers so I would suggest if you can

Rather than just using fleece there’s nothing wrong with fleece you can put fleece over the top but I would get a CL and put a CL over the top of your plants and then stuff the CL with either straw or fleece to keep the temperature at the

Surface that will mean you get a dry area around the top there and will help really really well but do remember that if you use straw or even fleece it’s a wonderful place now for the Slugs and snails to get in so once you think it’s

About time that the dailies are going to be coming through just get all of that material off clear it away of slugs and snails and just leave the CL over completely to allow the plant to grow and come back through if you’re really worried about your daers then always

Take some cutting things that you can overwinter inside thank you very much for watching and please do subscribe to the channel